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Food safety

We have a duty to make sure businesses manufacturing, preparing, cooking and serving food to the public in North Somerset do so safely.

We do this by making sure food is prepared in a suitable environment, those involved are trained in food hygiene and procedures are in place to guarantee food safety.

We support these requirements by carrying out routine inspections of more than 1600 local food businesses, and provide food hygiene training.

Our Food and Safety team is available to help and give advice about temperature control, cleaning and disinfection, pest control, food poisoning and accidents.

Our Trading Standards team also makes sure food is safe to eat. They check that food is labelled correctly, properly described and meets quality standards. They can give advice on importing food and food alerts. For more information visit the North Somerset Trading Standards website.

For more information on food safety regulations and running a business visit the Food Standards Agency website.

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